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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

Join the conversation about new directions for public education in the digital age with the hashtag #EdTechContract on Twitter. Moreover, the use of learning analytics and algorithms that substitute for human judgment about students should be subject to independent review and validation.

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Reinventing The School Desk: Tip Tap Tap And The Internet of Things

Fractus Learning

Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics. Gamification for Learning. TTT platform was designed to provide modalities of interaction complementary alongside effective pedagogies, curriculums and existing tools such as paper, to enhance students’ development of literacy, tracing, and tactile learning. Leveraging Learning Analytics.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. They’re amazing. It’s now an LMS too.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

In the meantime new, more agile, organisations are busy creating extremely good online learning experiences. In 2013 I learnt a lot by completing learning activities this way. I expect it will continue to grow very quickly in 2014 and to spread from its current focus in IT and software development education to other areas.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

In the meantime new, more agile, organisations are busy creating extremely good online learning experiences. In 2013 I learnt a lot by completing learning activities this way. I expect it will continue to grow very quickly in 2014 and to spread from its current focus in IT and software development education to other areas.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. This collaboration allows candidates to view theory in practice and makes learning on campus more authentic.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published.

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